This Secret Rainbow Highlighter by Chaos Makeup Is Stunning

Rainbow highlighters aren't hard to get your hands on these days. Thanks to inexpensive beauty brands like Wet n Wild and Miss A, you can snatch one for less than $5. And like the Bitter Lace Beauty Prism highlighter that started it all, most of the rainbow illuminators look the same: pressed pigments laid out in rainbow formation inside the pan. The Chaos Makeup Kaleidoscope Highlighter is no different — in that aspect at least. The way it looks on skin is completely different, though.

When the highlighter is swept onto cheekbones, the colorful pigments don't look true to the pan like other rainbow highlighters. Instead, they go on clear with a touch of opalescence. I repeat, it goes on clear. When the sun hits it, however, the rainbow hues are revealed. I know, it's sorcery of Harry Potter-level proportions. I literally can't stop watching the Boomerangs of the secret rainbow highlighter that Chaos Makeup has posted on Instagram.

This highlighter is basically the mullet of the rainbow makeup world. Straight on, you'll look like the average person wearing the average highlighter — business as usual. However, it's all about the party from the side.

The Texas-based beauty brand hand makes its version of the rainbow highlighter, which is glitter-free, natural and vegan friendly. (It's also made with coconut oil, BTW.) Before making the Kaleidoscope Highlighter, Chaos Makeup made each of the color-shifting highlighters in separate shades, which you can still shop individually if you happen to prefer a particular color in the ROYGBIV spectrum.